Some of the leaders of American colleges and universities are making an awful lot of money. Is this what Democrats are talking about when they say we have to invest more in education?
Katrina Trinko of National Review reports.
College Is the Key to Financial Success… if you’re a college president, that is.
If...
If this study is correct, does that mean affirmative action is doing the exact opposite of what it was created to do?
The Daily Caller reports.
Study: colleges in states that ban affirmative action in admission see less racial segregation
Court decisions dating to the 1950s theoretically ended racial segregation of higher education in...
Brian Miller of The College Conservative makes an excellent point below about gun ownership. The left’s desire for more gun control has a great deal to do with their abdication of personal responsibility.
Gun Control, Freedom, and Responsibility
In political debates, you often wish the other side would just fess up and get...
With student loan debt crushing American families, many are evaluating how to get the most of their 529 college-savings plans.
Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Louise Ensign takes a look at the wide variation in plan options, both within and between individual states, and offers some resources and risk considerations:
Age-based portfolios within...
In a new post at the College Conservative, writer Colin Snell points out that the education bubble is very much like the housing bubble.
Student Loans: Making College Unaffordable
The concept of federal student loans sounds like a great idea because we all want young Americans to be able to afford an education....
YAF is offering an exclusive seminar for conservative college students in Washington, DC next month. Any students who are interested in attending should read the info below carefully because you have to apply and there are only 20 open slots.
Katie Taran of the YAF blog has the details.
Calling All Rising Stars!
Young...
As 2013 begins, many Americans are considering major life changes.
College of the Desert student Elissa Roberson mulls over a substantial one in The College Conservative.
I have decided I’m going to convert. That’s right, Liberal-Progressive Democrats have persuaded me after I had a near-death experience. There I was, rolling down the highway...
American educators finally have an achievement of which they can be truly proud!
For years, educational programs have targeted increasing self esteem instead of knowledge and skills. A recent report indicates that at least confidence levels have risen among the educated.
A decades-long psychological survey has found that American students have more self-confidence...
Via Instapundit: Student loan debt is reaching record highs.
Eric Weddle of the (Lafayette) Journal and Courier has a report in the News and Tribune that focuses on the impact of this burden on local scholars:
The average amount of debt for 2011 graduates at Indiana’s public, four-year colleges rose to $27,500. The...
First enrollment decline in 15 years is reported.
President Obama touts his education programs that increase “college access”.
However, according Inside Higher Ed, college enrollment numbers have been downgraded under his administration:
It’s official: Higher education is shrinking, for...
Online course enrollment in the United States is hitting record levels with more than 6.1 million students. Millions of would-be scholars, concerned about the “higher education bubble”, are looking for alternatives to traditional forms of study.
Therefore, many Minnesota residents were perplexed when free online offerings triggered some concern from their state’s...
Cheating scandals have recently captured nationwide attention.
One developing investigation may impact a keystone of college applications, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). New York Times writer Jenny Anderson reports in an investigation centered on an SAT testing scam.
When Samuel Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Emory University, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly...
As 2012 ended, students nationwide were increasingly asking that politics be kept out of the classroom.
A Ohio State University German teacher apparently didn’t get the message, as student Patrick Seaworth notes in a recent piece in The College Fix.
When...
If you read College Insurrection, you already know this is true, but it’s nice to hear a professor admit it.
The College Fix reports.
Professor Admits the Truth: Social Science/Humanities Classes Inherently Biased
University of Texas journalism Professor Robert Jensen was brutally honest about the nature of social science and humanities courses his peers...
Which is why it has earned FIRE’s Speech Code of the month.
Samantha Harris reports.
Speech Code of the Month: Auburn University at Montgomery
Another year, a dozen more ridiculous speech codes. To kick off the new year, FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for January 2013: Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM).
AUM’s ...
